amen i agree w/ my instructor from last year's band camp. they need to get every copy of that movie put them all in one big pile and have a giant bon fire. of course u'd have to have wood and crap in there so it'd last but u get the point.

and as far as the single tenor thing goes ive never seen a HS w/ them but i do know Alabama A&M uses them.

They do, they have Multi-Tenors and Single tenors..its just the show band way, I HATE show bands, but if thats what some bands choose to play, than thats all them, but you would never catch me in a show band.

amen

Yea, I've never really gotten the point of the show bands marching quads and single tenors. Then they mount the tenor drums sideways and play them like bass drums... I dont get it.

I have no experience with it, but center snare at my corps marched in a show band his freshman year of college and said it was actually a lot of fun. Everyone has there own opinion though I guess.

amen.

And the show bands are sitting there complaining about corps because it's too square. To each his own I guess.

Back on topic: We don't use single tenors anymore, but we do have about 4-5 still in storage along with some tri-toms.

Oh man, This is becoming a throw-back thread faster and faster, single tenors AND trio's, Good things you can find in the old percussion storage. Of course, at my school at least, they might break if you move them, but still fun none the less.

If you thought that was a throw back I found some old snare drums (one would call it a parade drum nowadays)with the slings in a box nearby that you could trace to recordings made in the 50s-60s (or maybe earlier, but I don't have the piece of hardware required to play the stuff older than that)

We use multi-tenors at my high school, and to my knowledge we never used single toms. I have nothing against them, and if it was proper to use in a show, then I wouldn't complain. Show bands use them, sure. It's their thing. That's ok, to each his own. I feel that, while we don't necessarily need them (due to the bass drums being able to provide a similar impact that toms do), they serve a purpose with show bands.